twopenny

"I won't be made game of by a twopenny literary adventurer like that.

Their main selling line is the twopenny weekly, and the number and variety of these are almost unbelievable.

The twopenny coins measured exactly an inch and a half across; 16 pennies lined up would reach two feet.

"And make sure it's got a twopenny stamp on it," CH3 muttered.

The Central London Railway was built this way and known as the "twopenny tube" when opened in 1900.

"Would you like a twopenny stinker?"

"I'll put her to the proof," he said to himself, "if she likes this twopenny halfpenny cross, she is a miracle among women.

How often had I not sat in the sixpenny seats, eating a twopenny bar of milk chocolate, and yearning for similar things to happen to me!

He then joined the staff of Jerome's paper Today, a twopenny weekly, which was founded in 1893 and folded in 1897.

'And pray, Sam, what is the twopenny rope?'

The coins were nicknamed "cartwheels", both because of the size of the twopenny coin and in reference to the broad rims of both denominations.

But our principal sideline was a lending library--the usual 'twopenny no-deposit' library of five or six hundred volumes, all fiction.

'The twopenny rope, sir,' replied Mr. Weller, 'is just a cheap lodgin' house, where the beds is twopence a night.'

The twopenny value of the 1949 health stamp features a notable, though not particularly rare, flaw, with some stamps issued with no dot below the "d" of the value.

The sweets were originally marketed as Rowntree's Clear Gums - "The nation's favourite sweet" - and were available in twopenny tubes and sixpenny packets.

"Nonsense," said Tuppence, "You mustn't get swollen headed and think you are a millionaire just because you solved two or three twopenny halfpenny cases with the aid of the most amazing luck."

He edited a twopenny weekly paper, The Cause of the People, published in the Isle of Man, and he wrote political verses for the Dublin Nation, signed "Spartacus."

From 1822 to 1847 Limbird published a twopenny weekly, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, which has been characterized as "the first long-lived cheap periodical" in Britain.

"The halfpenny is the silver coin you use to pay for a quart of ale, but a loaf of bread is worth a penny, and a twopenny half-groat will buy you dinner at an inn.

He admitted that he couldn't be scared, but there was a way, "as broad as a turnpike, to get in and shake his twopenny soul around and inside out and upside down - by God!" '

These are but a few common examples, chosen from a meagre little library, a "twopenny treasure-house," but they illustrate, on a minute scale, the nature of the collector's passion,--the character of his innocent pleasures.

There is also some belief that the idiom may have its origins in the early cost of postage in England, the "twopenny post", where two pennies was the normal charge of sending a letter containing one's words and thoughts or feelings to someone.

My own view of such disappearing acts has always been twopenny Freud: We carry our anxiety like so much baggage into the events of our lives, and we blame the events for the anxiety; it's not me, folks, it's that plane crash.

Like Cadbury's chocolate, the recipe and packaging of the Mills and Boon volume may not have altered much since its inception, but the methods of marketing and distribution have changed dramatically since the early days of the twopenny library.